What's new in plzip 1.2 Pre1
Jan 22, 2014
- Copying of file dates, permissions, and ownership now behaves like "cp -p". (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).
- Individual limits have been set on the number of packets produced by each decompresor worker thread to limit the amount of memory used in all cases.
- "plzip.texinfo" has been renamed to "plzip.texi".
New in plzip 1.1 Pre1 (Jul 26, 2013)
- Plzip now shows the progress of compression at verbosity level 2 (-vv).
- Signals "SIGUSR1" and "SIGUSR2" are no longer raised internally to signal a fatal error.
New in plzip 1.0 (Jun 6, 2013)
- Scalability of compression (max number of useful worker threads) has been increased.
- Scalability when decompressing from/to regular files has been increased.
- The number of worker threads is now limited to the number of members in the input file when decompressing from a regular file.
- "configure" now accepts options with a separate argument.
- The targets "install-as-lzip" and "install-bin" have been added to the Makefile.
New in plzip 1.0 RC1 (Mar 14, 2013)
- Scalability of compression (maximum number of useful worker threads) has been increased. Scalability when decompressing from/to regular files has been increased.
- The number of worker threads is now limited to the number of members in the input file when decompressing from a regular file. The target "install-as-lzip" has been added to the Makefile.
New in plzip 0.9 (Apr 18, 2012)
- This version adds minor fixes and cleanups.
- The configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to follow GNU Standards.
New in plzip 0.7 (Dec 9, 2010)
- Match length limits set by options -1 to -9 have been changed to match those of lzip 1.11.
- A limit has been set on the number of packets produced by decompressor worker threads to limit the amount of memory used. Do not show the message "and `--stdout' was not specified" for file types that can't be read (directories, etc).
- A warning about fchown's return value being ignored has been fixed.